American States Water Company (AWR): Price and Financial Metrics

AWR POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where AWR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 85.64% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AWR is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• AWR ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 15th percentile.

AWR Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 460.51, American States Water Co is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 94.05% of US stocks.
• American States Water Co's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.38% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, AWR is more volatile than only 16.02% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to American States Water Co, a group of peers worth examining would be NWE, ADT, POR, PSHG, and UHT.
• Visit AWR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to americanstateswatercompany.gcs-web.com.

AWR Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Utilities stock, AWR's price/sales ratio is 137.93% higher, now standing at 6.9.
• Over the past 243 months, AWR's price/earnings ratio has gone up 20.
• AWR's price/sales ratio has moved up 5.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AWR.

AWR Growth Metrics

Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 6.64%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 46.3%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 6.64%.

Over the past 34 months, AWR's revenue has gone up $55,032,000.

The table below shows AWR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	498.853	115.584	94.347
2021-09-30	506.429	116.25	94.208
2021-06-30	503.362	117.051	92.585
2021-03-31	496.226	131.192	91.621
2020-12-31	488.243	122.17	86.425
2020-09-30	477.036	120.403	82.914

AWR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AWR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 47.16% of graded US stocks.
• AWR's asset turnover comes in at 0.277 -- ranking 30th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• PEG, NEE, and NFG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AWR.

The table below shows AWR's key quality metrics over time.